Buried in all sorts of collections of zines, anarchist/collectivist mirrors, and everywhere else, the Internet Archive houses a whole bunch of fascinating documents on Squatting.
Besides the items themselves, the collections they live among are fascinating too.
Here's a 2010 book on squatting in Brisbane and Queensland, Australia. "SQUAT!"
PM Press has a whole range of books you can check out from their catalog, including "The City is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present". Link here:
From the general Zines collection, pamphlets like Tips 4 Squatting in NYC remind me of classic BBS textfiles of the 1980s, with information and suggestions coming from who knows where, leading to you making critical thinking about the words.
There's a mass of interesting, amazing and weird writings in the Zines collection at the Archive. Get a USB drive, grab a bunch, and start reading today.
One last one: If you are not sure where to start with all this, ease yourself in with the classic and well regarded PROCESSED WORLD ZINE, a group of SF temps in the 1980s who made a beautifully radical and designtastic scream against the corporate system.
First month and change is paid for. I'll be getting the office! It'd be nice to have the six months socked away but I'm sure I can prove it was worth it through September. Here's some of what's to be done.
Munchy, the CD-ROM reading robot, will be at the ready for any CDs coming in, either from my backlog or from people sending them in. (Random boxes come to me all the time.)
I've got literally hundreds of videotapes to rip, which I'm able to do in the background constantly. These range from obscure to historically one of a kind, to completely off the charts weird.
The moment of stunned silence after someone suggested the ad copy. The two days of trying to come up with alternatives and failing.
If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people stopping by, go visit the place I work at, The Internet Archive, which has dozens of petabytes of, I must stress, amazing stuff, including floppy disks:
The collection spans 1997-2004, which feels about right. 151 of them right now.
Press Kits have been a part of movies for many, many years - a gathering of promotional materials so press didn't have to think too hard, and they didn't need to let too many people on set asking the same things.
And of course, ensure the images were Just Right.
Most of these are ISOs. to look at the insides, click on SHOW ALL link on the right, then "VIEW CONTENTS" for the .ISO file (where available). Or download it and mount it locally using a utility. Each disc is a junk drawer of Hollywood PR. (This one has 22mb .TIFF Files!)
Some days at Internet Archive, I bump into people who were part of legendary companies and endeavors, who played a role, major or minor, in products that still hold warm feelings for a generation of people.
I bumped into one, and mentioned I'd love to interview him. He said no.
He told me that he wouldn't ever go on record about the company (a prominent one, believe me) or anything about it, because he was ashamed of his role in the success of it and the costs associated with it. He didn't like rosy looks back that forgot that.
He did tell me a story.
During a particularly difficult and intense amount of work at this company, what we'd call crunch now, one of the main engineers of the project had a breakdown. Complete and total, and was checked into a psych ward on observation because he was suicidal and spiraling.